WASHINGTON — The House is expected to take up legislation this week that would authorize about $900 billion for the military, providing an increase over the White House’s annual budget request.

The bicameral version of the bill released Sunday includes $8 billion more than what the Trump administration had requested and what the House allotted in a version of the bill that it passed earlier this year. The additional funding in the legislation marked a modest but rare divergence for Republican lawmakers from President Donald Trump, after a year of largely ceding authority as he made dramatic cuts to the government.

Both chambers are racing to pass the annual defense policy bill before the end of the year and deliver it to the president’s desk.

One overarching goal of the bill, which authorizes spending for the 2026 fiscal year, is to streamline how the Defense Department meets its needs through research, contracting and manufacturing.

The bill would authorize an overhaul of how the department buys weapons. It also seeks to shore up the network of public and private organizations that provide a range of materials, products and services to the military.

Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., the House Armed Services Committee chair, said in a statement that the legislation was focused on “building out critical warfighting capabilities.”

“I’m eager to send this to President Trump’s desk so we can give our military the tools they need to remain the most ready, capable, and lethal force in the world,” he added.

Troops across the military will receive a 3.8% annual pay raise under the bill.

The legislation also seeks to codify more than a dozen of Trump’s executive orders, including those aimed at accelerating U.S. manufacturing of military drones, transforming the country’s air and missile defense system into a “Golden Dome” to intercept foreign attacks, and authorizing the use of active-duty troops to patrol the southern border.

The final bill includes some House Republican provisions about gender in the military that echo the Trump administration’s efforts to end “woke” ideology, including a ban on transgender women participating in women’s athletic programs at U.S. service academies.

The bill, however, does not rename the Defense Department the “Department of War,” as Trump and his defense secretary have called it. Instead, the legislation sticks with the already codified “Department of Defense” and “secretary of defense” throughout the roughly 3,000-page bill.

The legislation would also roll back Biden-era climate policies, including by restricting the Defense Department’s use of electric or hybrid vehicles.

Aid for Ukraine is included in the bill, with a reauthorization of $400 million in security assistance annually through the 2027 fiscal year for the country as it faces a worsening position in its war with Russia.

Negotiators also included in the final text new guardrails on U.S. investments in certain technology in China. The language is a bipartisan attempt to stem the flow of American capital into China’s development of, among other sectors, artificial intelligence and military tech.

The bill would also repeal authorizations for the use of military force from 1991 and 2002. There was strong bipartisan support to eliminate the Iraq and Persian Gulf War-era authorizations that presidents for decades, in both parties, have used to justify overseas military operations.

A permanent repeal of U.S. sanctions on Syria is also included in the latest version of the bill, building on steps Trump has taken. Lawmakers say the repeal is necessary if Syria is going to recover from the civil war that ravaged the country for more than a decade.

Both the House and Senate versions of the bill that passed earlier this year would have approved expanding health insurance coverage for in vitro fertilization for service members and their family members. The provision was removed by Speaker Mike Johnson at the eleventh hour last year, but its sponsors had hoped that Trump’s pledge to improve access to IVF would pressure Republicans to support the proposal this year.

The Defense Department only covers fertility treatment for those who can prove a difficulty in becoming pregnant is because of “a serious or severe illness or injury while on active duty,” leaving those who cannot to pay out of pocket for the expensive procedure.

His office said in a statement that Johnson has “clearly and repeatedly stated he is supportive of access to IVF when sufficient pro-life protections are in place.”

Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., one of the sponsors of the IVF proposal, said in a statement that Johnson had put his “personal beliefs” over the needs of service members, and that she was disappointed that the president had “failed to do anything” to change the speaker’s position.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

The Trump administration deported a planeload of Iranian citizens on a chartered plane to Iran on Sunday, according to two Iranian officials familiar with the details, in just the second time the United States has ever done so.

The plane — carrying about 50 Iranian citizens, as well as deportees from Arab countries and Russia — departed from an airport in Mesa, Arizona, and will make stops in Egypt and Kuwait, said the two Iranian officials, who asked for anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

The U.S.-chartered deportation flight to Iran was the second of its kind, after the first took off in September, after months of negotiations between Tehran and Washington.

Iran and the United States have not had diplomatic relations since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, and for decades the United States has provided refuge to Iranian dissidents, religious and ethnic minorities; members of the LGBTQ+ community; and others fleeing persecution in their homeland.

But as part of the Trump administration’s pursuit of mass deportations, it reached a deal with Tehran to coordinate the return of Iranian citizens facing deportation — currently estimated at about 2,000 people — and send them on chartered planes to Tehran. In the past, the United States deported Iranians individually on commercial planes.

The identities of Sunday’s deportees and their individual circumstances — including whether they had voluntarily accepted deportation or had been forced onto the plane — were not immediately clear. One of the Iranian officials familiar with the list of Iranians on the flight said they had entered the United States through the southern border, lingered in detention facilities for months and had their asylum requests denied.

The Department of Homeland Security did not comment on the flight. A U.S. official, who asked not to be identified to discuss the issue, confirmed the flight had taken off Sunday and described it as a routine deportation flight that included nationals from other countries, not just Iran.

One of the Iranian officials, who has worked closely with U.S. officials on the transfer, said that Arab and Russian nationals would get off the plane when it landed in Cairo and that the Iranians would then travel on to Kuwait, where they would transfer to a chartered Kuwait Airways airplane for the final leg to Tehran.

Mojtaba Shasti Karimi, director of consular services for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, told local news media Sunday that Iran was expecting to receive about 55 deportees from the United States in the coming days.

Shasti Karimi said that those in the group had expressed their willingness to return home to Iran because of “the racist and anti-immigration policies,” of the U.S. government and said Tehran had received reports of “inhumane” treatment of Iranians held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.

As news reports of the possible flight began to circulate over the weekend, however, an Iranian-American U.S. lawmaker, Rep. Yassamin Ansari, D-Ariz., warned on social media that the flight could include “vulnerable individuals who could face persecution” if returned to Iran.

The Trump administration has said it plans to carry out the largest deportation in the country’s history, targeting immigrants lacking legal status and those who had illegally crossed the U.S. border. The administration has also said that it would severely reduce the number of asylum cases it grants and limit them to white migrants from South Africa or English-speaking Europeans.

Iranians are among the citizens of 19 countries targeted in President Donald Trump’s travel ban. Their — and many others’ — legal pathways to immigration have also been restricted following new limits Trump announced after the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington last month. The suspect in the shooting, which killed one soldier, is an immigrant from Afghanistan.

The first flight of Iranian deportees departed in September and landed in Tehran in early October, by way of Qatar, and at least eight of 45 people on the flight said they had resisted deportation, begging to not be sent to Iran because they feared for their lives. Two deportees on the flight to Tehran recounted their ordeals in detail, saying they had been beaten by immigration officials in the United States and in Qatar and dragged onto the plane.

Upon landing in Tehran in October, deportees said they were terrified, as they were questioned at the airport and made to fill out forms explaining why they had left Iran and sought asylum in America. Several of the deportees said they had been called in for interrogation by the intelligence wing of the Revolutionary Guard.

The United States and Qatar both denied allegations of violence against the deportees or forcing them on the flights to Iran.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.